Essential concepts for an 8 year old budding music producer :)

Hi all

I'll take my 8 year old daughter away for a stay of 6 weeks. She sings. I mean she sings throughout the day. Literally never tired of singing... She's still playing the piano but Im thinking this will be a good time to start.

I want to introduce to Logic pro. The goal is to let her loose with my macbook, logic pro and let her find a way of composing her own songs. IM thinking essentials that I need to pack in my suitcase is as follows:

1 Macbook with logic installed

2. Midi keyboard - think a unit Audio M - don't know whether to go 25, 32 or 49 keys

3 microphone/voice recorder - or not (do not know how well the mac built in microphone works for her)

4. decent pair of headphones

Any suggestions for the 2 points. 3. & 4. would be welcome.

Also, and perhaps more importantly, suggestions on how to introduce the world of music production. Are there notable tutorials out there that would be appropriate for children?

Your comments are greatly appreciated.

See you soon

My only suggestion is, if you really want to teach him how to play the piano, (which is a great idea) get a keyboard 49 keys minimum. In addition, as a music teacher... don't forget that a "keyboard" is far from playing a real piano. However, we can learn the basics of the music on it and use it with computers. Eight-year-old is the ideal time to start, if you think it's promising, get his first lessons of piano and learned to read, play/composing by ear is wonderful, but learn to read music opens worlds of music.  I served as a teacher of jazz guitar at the University here and teach music theory API.

(My opinion) The most important thing for a young musician (if she is going to be just a hobby or more) is to learn the rudiments of music because of this point, you can go anywhere. (Lady Gaga is a classically trained pianist)

If you have installed GarageBand, I would start there, (it is built on a subset of logic and all the basics are here) that's a lot for a child of eight years to work with, it allows to display in musical notation (played with the keyboard) MIDI tracks, but also the standard format "piano roll".

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